"Your confidence is inspiring and refreshing," He says, both teasing and earnest at once. It was nice not to have to fight to get someone to work with him.

"Writing a letter to the kid probably wouldn't be a bad place to start, between you and me, finding out exactly what we're working with and need to work on." He laughs, "Then we can compare notes or something." It's a strange concept, the idea that he can just write to some higher power. He thinks again what it might be like if that's how things had worked with him and Ichigo.